On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 08:40:33PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > >On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:10:41PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > > > > >>Ok, using fdupes -f I have created a file that contains a list of all > >>duplicate files. So, what command can a run against that file to delete > >>all the files listed in it? > >> > >>Or since I know that fdupes -f works, could I just do something like: > >> > >>fdupes -f ./ | rm * > >> > >>or would that rm everything? > >> > >> > >> > > > >read > >man fdupes > >note the -d option > > > > > > > > > No actually the -d option is not an option. The reason is is because it > then asks you after all found duplicates, which of them you wish to > keep. Well, I have some 5000 duplicates to go through, so it will take > forever. I would rather think of a way to use the output of fdupes or > the file I created to delete all the duplicates.
Do you have 5000 duplicates of a single file or 5000 duplicate groups, i.e. groups of files that are mutually identical? Do you really want to delete ALL copies of a file for which there are duplicates? I suspect not, but I really don't know. If you want to keep one representative copy of each duplicate group (what I suspect you should want), you have to provide some method of deciding which one of the several copies that fdupes has found. There is, I think, more to your problem than you realize. But, I really don't know. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
